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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Security
Though Apple has long prided itself on the Mac’s safety record, recent events such as the Flashback Trojan horse have proven that the company can’t...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Sharing
One of the many features that Mountain Lion has borrowed from iOS is the idea of systemwide sharing. In many apps you’ll see a Share button,...
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HelpHow to make a bootable Mountain Lion install drive
Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc – it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from...
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Help 1How to install Mountain Lion over Leopard (OS X 10.5)
As we explained in our guide to installing Mountain Lion, one of the requirements for installing OS X 10.8 is that you already have at least Snow...
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Should you do a ‘clean install’ of Mountain Lion?
It used to be that when upgrading to a major new version of OS X, installing over an existing OS X installation – for example, installing 10.3 over...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Notifications
iOS users will immediately recognise Mountain Lion’s new notification system—it’s more or less the same one that debuted on iOS 5 last...
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Installing Mountain Lion: What you need to know
Before Lion (OS X 10.7) debuted last year, installing the latest major version of Mac OS X meant buying a disc and slipping it into your Mac’s optical...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: iCloud
When Apple introduced iCloud at 2011’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company touted the online service’s ability to seamlessly sync...
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NewsiPhoto, Aperture get Mountain Lion updates
Apple’s iWork suite may have been updated to add Documents in the Cloud support, but those weren’t the only Apple-built apps to get a Mountain...
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NewsMountain Lion arrives in Mac App Store
Apple on Wednesday released Mountain Lion, the operating system otherwise known as OS X 10.8. Mountain Lion adds several iOS-inspired apps and features,...
